A store owner in Oberlin, Ohio, decided to pull a Christmas display out of his store window after the designer went a bit too far. "A few of his other displays were on the edge," said store owner Charlie Palmer, "but never that crazy." The display featured gingerbread men dressed as Nazi storm troopers. In another window, a snowman sits under a hair dryer in a suicide attempt. "I want people to say 'Oh, my gosh'," said window artist Keith McGuckin. "And once they look at it, say, 'It is kind of pretty'." As for the Nazi theme, "I can differentiate between real Nazis and the atrocities they performed compared to these little gingerbread men, but I guess some people can't." McGuckin's display at the store last year included a little boy making crystal meth using his new chemistry set. (Elyria Chronicle-Telegram) ...Which, he explains, is what led Scrooge to have his hallucinations.

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Nazi gingerbread men?!? At Christmas?! What were his plans for Easter, I wonder? The Manson Family visiting the Easter Bunny, perhaps. Or later in the year he could do a Donner Party Thanksgiving display.